Andrew Fluegelman

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Andrew Fluegelman
Fluegelman, Andrew

   <person> A successful attorney, editor of {PC World Magazine},
   and author of the {MS-DOS} communications program {PC-TALK
   III}, written in 1982.  He once owned the trademark
   "{freeware}" but it wasn't enforced after his disappearance.

   In 1985, Fluegelman was diagnosed with cancer.  He was last
   seen a week later, on 1985-07-06, when he left his Marin
   County home to go to his office in Tiburon.  He called his
   wife later that day and has not been heard from since.  His
   car was found at Vista Point on the north end of the Golden
   Gate Bridge.

   [San Francisco Examiner Sunday Magazine, October 1985].

   Shareware history (http://paulspicks.com/history.asp).

   NEWSBYTES article
   (http://textfiles.fisher.hu/news/freeware.txt).

   (http://doenetwork.bravepages.com/579dmca.html).

   (2003-07-25)
    

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